“I admire her as a writer, an editor, and as a person. That last one matters. Leigh Anne is someone who can build long-term relationships with writers because of her good nature.”
—Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth
“She has first-rate editorial sensibilities. Perhaps they spring from her training as a poet, but she has finely-honed instincts for le mot juste. I have also found her to be very well organized, capable, and conscientious about deadlines.”
—Peter Guzzardi, former editor-in-chief at Harmony Books/Random House
“She is both forceful and a force for literary excellence.”
—Sam Pickering, author of Letters to a Teacher, Happy Vagrancy, and Trespassing
“I’d been working on a certain novel for years and got stuck, and working with Leigh Anne was quite valuable. She understands well the big architecture and the fine detail, able to aim for large changes in a novel while fine-tuning sentences simultaneously, a skill I have never had. I know it probably takes practice, but it’s also true some people are just a lot better at editing than others, and Leigh Anne smashes the ball out of the park.”
—Mike Guista, author of Brain Work: Stories
“Based on her work with me on The Greensboro Review, I knew she would go the long-distance in publishing and editing. She has the love of language, an instinctual knowledge of how to move gracefully in the literary world, an eye for all the nitpicky details of style and design. She knows how to meet deadlines, even when all is coming apart, and how to pull together a team of writers, designers, and production people. In brief, she is simply one of our best.”
—Jim Clark, former editor of The Greensboro Review